Writing

Notes from sixteen years of other people's codebases.

Short, practical write-ups — mostly things I had to figure out under deadline, written down so the next person doesn't have to.

Aug 2025

Laravel / PHP2 min read

How to use JSON and Laravel with MySQL

My lead framework is Laravel, and I really like to use it with MongoDB, and I do it for the most of time. But sometimes, especially when you worked with legacy code, I have to use MySQL that doesn't support JSON as...

Aug 2025

Laravel / PHP1 min read

If class not found, or file not exists on Laravel

Sometimes, especially after refactoring, you can get the error that some of Controllers or Models can't be found. There is a life hack:

Aug 2025

Laravel / PHP1 min read

Laravel 5.4 markdown email doesn't render HTML

If you ever stumbled with question why your markdown email in Laravel doesn't render properly, you have to know - that you need to remove any tabs/spaces before lines, so if you like to press CTRL+ALT+L and format...

Aug 2024

JavaScript / Node.js1 min read

How to fix JavaScript and JSON error in Sublime with CodeFormatter package

For the last several months I try to migrate from PHPStorm to Sublime or Atom code editors. The reasons for my decision deserve a separate story, and I will write about it little soon. But now, I want to share how to...

Aug 2024

Frontend development1 min read

New Bootstrap release is coming! Pre-release was published.

Hey, glad to hear that new pre-release of new Bootstrap was published!

Aug 2024

Web development1 min read

Problem binding to port 80: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6.

sudo certbot certonly --standalone --rsa-key-size 4096 --agree-tos --preferred-challenges http -d yourdomain

Aug 2024

JavaScript / Node.js1 min read

Problem rendering component row in table with Vuejs

You created a vuejs component that contains a table row, inserted it to tbody and noticed that it appear about the table? Yeah, me too, there is my solution.

Aug 2023

Laravel / PHP1 min read

What if "Cannot find module cross-env" for npm run dev with Laravel 5.5 and Vuejs

Hey, I feel anyone can experience such bug with fresh install Ubuntu 16.04 and Laravel 5.5 for your local environment.